Abstract: False positives cause many promising detection technologies to be unworkable in practice. Attackers, we show, face this problem too. In deciding who to attack true positives are targets successfully attacked, while false positives are those that are attacked but yield nothing. This allows us to view the attacker’s problem as a binary classification. The […]
The advantage of tough, measurable goals with strong incentives attached is that people work hard to achieve them. That’s what managers do when they’re settings targets for staff, so it makes sense that John Key’s gone that route. But what can happen when one organisation is responsible for both meeting the goals and measuring their […]
Because it looks fancier and more expensive. 9 wine judges from France, Belgium and the U.S. tasted French against New Jersey wines. The French wines selected were from the same producers as in 1976 including names such as Chateau Mouton-Rothschild and Haut Brion, priced up to $650/bottle… Although, the winner in each category was a […]
Meta-research shows that more bike lanes generate more cyclists: Buehler and Pucher found that the presence of off-road bike paths and on-street bike lanes were, by far, the biggest determinant of cycling rates in cities. And that’s true even after you control for a variety of other factors like how hot or cold a city […]
I only just found out that Elinor Ostrom died last week. She is the only woman to win a Nobel Prize in economics (although Joan Robinson probably should have got one) and the magnitude of that achievement is magnified by the fact that she didn’t train as an economist! If you’re not familiar with her […]